Addictions are supposed to interfere with your life - it's what makes them addictions. I find that definition weird, but it's whatever. Anyway, the way I've been told to figure out if something is an addiction is to ask myself some simple questions:

Do I cancel appointments to fulfill my addiction?
If I don't participate in my addiction do I get angry, irritable, sad, etc. ?
Have people told me that I spend way to much time fulfilling my addiction?

Stuff like that.
Hope it helps :]

i think if it gets in yer way of daily importance then ya probably

I'm not on the computer for 10-15 hours, but i do know the feeling of being on for a long time just killing time. I kill time in chat rooms and its probably just cost me my only true love. We are both addicts and need help. I came here and I hope it really works.

yes ppl like us r addicted to the internet. all well thats ok.

Your addicted if it interferes with other aspect of your daily life,a dn you feel anxiety or pain if you do not have the resources to jump round the internet. It sucks. I wish could just hve a list of useful things I need to do on the web and just get to them. But I don't it sucks.

Thats like me as well! I used to spend every waking moment on the internet and when i was in school i would just go insane with thoughts of it never getting any work done and everything! i keep trying to leave on occasions but inever seem to manage it lol!

Yea i think we are addicted lol!

I'm addicted, I think, too. I'm 13. I think an addiction is, as everyone else said, when it gets inthe way of your ife. For instance, I think I'm addicted because I spend every waking minute thinking about the internet, even if I'm not online, I can't go more than 24 hours without if before getting seriously freaked, I'll lie to anyone and break promises for it, and everyone complains about it. And people have said I'm addicted. Well, my mom did. And this therapist lady she made me see over something else.

I think I'm addicted too :( i spend most of my free and no-free time online....i stop doing things just to be online..and someetimes i have no reason to be online so i go to chat rooms...it' frustrating b/c i don't wanna be depending on a machine or anything actually...I hope we can help each other..=)